John P. Kotter Quotes
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Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.
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Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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I love playing women, and I think that this is a throughline to a lot of the characters I've played - they all have this aspect of being wronged. And I think, a lot of the time, the characters are actually wronged by themselves, and they find someone else to blame it on.
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You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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By 1988, I was living in New York myself.
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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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My dad's not a big talker.
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I think in a lot of network television, everyone's vaguely Protestant and doesn't really go to church so they can be 'relatable.'
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Try not to eat after 7 P.M. Try to stay away from heavy food in the night, like hamburgers and chicken nuggets. Eat that stuff in the morning or early afternoon.
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Saving a life overrides territories.
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My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
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I'm a little bit of a control freak.
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
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I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
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I love doing film soundtracks and working with directors on how they want the scene to be portrayed on audio as opposed to visual. I like the collaborative effort of working with people.
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The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong. The Palestinian people are prepared to sacrifice until either the last boy and the last girl raise the Palestinian flag over the walls, the churches and the mosques of Jerusalem.
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Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.
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Kotter International is about leading large-scale change, not just managing it.
